India's '$10 Laptop' to Cost US$100 After All

pcworld.com - 7/30/2008

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A low-cost laptop being developed by the Indian government in tandem with two leading Indian education and research institutions will cost US$100 when available, and not $10 as was earlier stated by the government. A spokesman for Minister of State for Higher Education, D. Purandeswari, said on Wednesday that the price of the laptop would in fact be US$100 rather than $10. In a transcript of ...

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New Delhi Plans $100 Laptop for Students
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... to produce a sub-$100 computer, and the organization hopes to meet that goal by the end of 2008. Other computer manufacturers have been producing inexpensive notebooks as well. Jointech is offering a its JL7100 mini laptop for $99, and the NPX-9000 is selling for $130. (Updated at 3:20 p.m. PDT with revised estimate from the transcript.] Now, $10 laptop for students [Economic Times] (Thanks, Yash Desai!) India's '$10 laptop' to Cost $100 After All [PC World] (Photo credit: ...

$10 Indian laptop to actually cost $100, anyone surprised?
Engadget — Filed under: LaptopsCome on, you didn't really believe that a $10 laptop was even remotely possible, did you? Yeah, didn't think so -- and unsurprisingly, that project sponsored by the Indian government to develop a low-cost laptop actually has a price target of $100, not $10. Chalk another one up to bad transcription, we suppose, although getting the price of a reasonable machine down to $100 won't be all that easy, either -- any bets on where the final price of this thing ends up?Read | Permalink | Email ...